<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37694" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Voice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the kindling glances,<br>Queen-like and clear,<br>Which the bright moon lances<br>From her tranquil sphere<br>At the sleepless waters<br>Of a lonely mere,<br>On the wild whirling waves, mournfully, mournfully,<br>Shiver and die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the tears of sorrow<br>Mothers have shed -<br>Prayers that tomorrow<br>Shall in vain be sped<br>When the flower they flow for<br>Lies frozen and dead -<br>Fall on the throbbing brow, fall on the burning breast,<br>Bringing no rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like bright waves that fall<br>With a lifelike motion<br>On the lifeless margin of the sparkling Ocean;<br>A wild rose climbing up a mouldering wall -<br>A gush of sunbeams through a ruined hall -<br>Strains of glad music at a funeral -<br>So sad, and with so wild a start<br>To this deep-sobered heart,<br>So anxiously and painfully,<br>So drearily and doubtfully,<br>And oh, with such intolerable change<br>Of thought, such contrast strange,<br>O unforgotten voice, thy accents come,<br>Like wanderers from the world's extremity,<br>Unto their ancient home!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain, all, all in vain,<br>They beat upon mine ear again,<br>Those melancholy tones so sweet and still.<br>Those lute-like tones which in the bygone year<br>Did steal into mine ear -<br>Blew such a thrilling summons to my will,<br>Yet could not shake it;<br>Made my tost heart its very life-blood spill,<br>Yet could not break it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37694" data-title="The Voice de Matthew Arnold" data-description="As the kindling glances,/Queen-like and clear,/Which the bright moon lances/From her tranquil sphere/At the sleepless waters/Of a lonely mere,/On the wild whirling waves, mournfully, mournfully,/Shiver and die./As the tears of sorrow/Mothers have ..."></div> </div> </div>

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